Show NORTHWEST NOTES anan named mccandless whose first name Is not known committed suicide in portland by blowing out his brains mccandless came to portland from seattle a month ago illness was the cause of the deed the city marshal of williston N D shot and killed an unidentified tramp in a general revolver battle in willis ton the tramp had endeavored to kill conductor J E salisbury of havre mont firing at him twice the rate for admission on sundays 0 o the lewis and dark exposition ha been placed at 25 cents a redu tion ol 01 one half the change was made be cause the working exhibits and amuse ment places are closed on sundays carl drennan aged 17 years of jop lin mo and carl phoenix aged 20 of cherryvale Cherry vale han were killed by a santa fe train four miles west of laa animas colo the youths were sleep ing beside the track with their heads on the ties judge henry G one of seat tie s best known citizens died in new york city after a brief illness hia death was unexpected the only rela tive with him was his daughter misa mary the body will be brought to seattle for interment mme reginal ruff alias von heck a clairvoyant and psychologist waa arrested at portland charged with tn theft of valued at several thousand dollars from mrs clara sterns of oakland cal the woman left oakland for portland on april 16 A message from lusk wyo states that ten year old tommy bell waa dragged to death by his shetland pony the pony threw the boy and dragged him yards over rough ground crushing his skull breaking one arm and tearing the flesh from hia face and hands A call has been issued for the shingle manufactures of northwest washington to meet in bellingham to discuss a closedown of mills tor ninety days next winter it is claimed an an nual close season is necessary in order to maintain the equilibrium of the market the missouri river power company says a helena dispatch will build a second dam across the missouri river for developing electrical power at a cost of work will begin at once the power will be trans bitted to helena and butte as well as to intermediate points the announcement is made in reno nevada that a contract tor the con st ruction of the tunnels through the sierra nevada mountains has been let by the southern pacific company and pat worl on them will begin within fc month there are to be five tunnel in all and the main ane nill be ae miles long vaudeville theatre managers depre benting circuits on the pacific coast the northwest and montana met in seattle and discussed plans of a con solid atlon of interests covering bool ings the price of acts and the matter of making performers live up to their contracts thirty managers were in at biohn coleman who killed edna hoffman in portland ore pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the state cir cult court and was sentenced to the penitentiary for life coleman killed the hoffman woman in a fit of jealous rage he was captured at chehallis and after being incarcerated attempt ed to commit suicide matt brier a miner was fatally shot at missoula mont by hold ups who endeavored to take his money abner was met on the railroad track in he west end of missoula about 8 30 clock by two men who ordered him to throw up his hands when he re aisted and was shot dolphes ance hannah a pioneer of oregon washington and california is dead at tacoma aged 83 ears he crossed the plains in 1858 and was ap pointed united states marshal by pres ident buchanan on the admission of oregon into the union and took the census of oregon in 1860 the bandages have been removed from the eyes of the sons of joe hays and john hays of rock springs wyo and it now appears that the sight of both boys can be preserved although their eyes will be weak throughout life the boys were injured recently in an explosion of powder the of june long celebrated as the anniversary of the battle of bunk er hill will be historic in the annals of nevada as the day on which the reclamation act was signed and also as the day on wh ch water was turned for the first time into a government canal upon the desert while coir men and a woman were trying to cross the missouri river at judith on the ferr the boat capsized and two of the men were drowned when the ferryboat was righted the body of charles murray who was drowned about two weeks ago was found caught in the wheel the ta year old daughter of mr and mrs ed chamberian chamberia Cham beria n of ennis mont was brownel in the rn gating ditch bad of the residence the little one had been lost about an hour when the mother found her in about ten inches of water the child had been dead several minutes when found |